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Governors Awards: How many of the 23 recipients to date were Oscar winners or nominees?

Traditionally, the motion picture academy has bestowed honorary awards on those who had lost their previous races at the Oscars. Among those feted on the acting side were all-time Oscar also-ran Peter O’Toole, who lost his eight competitive bids and Deborah Kerr, who held the record on the distaff side with six losses (she was tied with scene-stealer Thelma Ritter, who was never so honored before passing away in 1969 and Glenn Close). Occasionally, a past winner, such as Sophia Loren, would receive a bookend honorary Oscar but that was exception.

Angela Lansbury was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actress: “Gaslight,” 1944; “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” 1945; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” 1963; and

Steve Martin was never nominated for an Oscar.

2014Jean-Claude Carrière won Best Live-Action Short in 1962 for “Happy Anniversary” and then reaped three Adapted Screenplay bids: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” 1972; “That Obscure Object of Desire,” 1978; “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” 1988;

2015Spike Lee was nominated for Best Original Screenplay (“Do the Right Thing,” 1989) and for Best Documentary Feature (“4 Little Girls,” 1997); and

Gena Rowlands was nominated twice for Best Actress: “A Woman Under the Influence,” 1974; and “Gloria,” 1980.

2016Anne V. Coates won Best Film Editing for “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962 and was nominated four more times: “Becket” (1964), “The Elephant Man” (1980); “In the Line of Fire” (1993), “Out of Sight” (1998); and